wandering thoughts Quotes

That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. I pass the hotel at 8 and at 5; there are cats in the alleys and bottles and bums, and I look up at the window and think, I no longer know where you are, and I walk on and wonder where the living goes when it stops.

He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his "butterfly mind.

A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.

The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline.

Walking with her man, Lost in a dream

My mind wanders a lot, but fortunately it's too weak to go very far.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague memories, nothing but memories.

Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.